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The Billion Dollar iPod Accessories Market
OleSurinam writes "The NYTimes has a story about the lucrative iPod accessories market." From the article: "Making add-ons for the iPod is a $1 billion business. Does that sound like hyperbole? Consider this. Last year, Apple sold 32 million iPods, or one every second. But for every $3 spent on an iPod, at least $1 is spent on an accessory, estimates Steve Baker, an analyst for the NPD Group, a research firm. That works out to three or four additional purchases per iPod."
Consider this. Last year, Apple sold 32 million iPods, or one every second. But for every $3 spent on an iPod, at least $1 is spent on an accessory, estimates Steve Baker, an analyst for the NPD Group, a research firm. That works out to three or four additional purchases per iPod.
So for every $3-seconds, there's an additional $1-second for accessories. That means about 10.6 million $1-seconds last year, which works out to a bit over 2,944 $1-hours, 122 $1-days, or about 17.5 $1-weeks!
That means for every iPod-year, there's an iPod-accessory-quarter!!!!
Go statistics!
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
You obviously did not buy the matching iBook accessory to the iPod.
Britain has just launched the HMS Daring, a 600 million pound-sterling (umm ... roughly US$ 1 Billion) battleship complete with iPod docks.
That single ship effectively doubles the total market for "iPod Accessories."
"Diplomacy is something you do until you find a rock." --Richard Pound
iPod People
They sell it for 45$? That's just a fucking knob. I know knobs are cool and all, but why would you buy a knob for 45$?
It goes to 11.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
It goes to 11.
I take back what I said. I want one NOW.